Semantic Layer Contract Job Trends in England

Semantic Layer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 517 546
Rank change year-on-year -27 +29 +207
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 9 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.028% 0.003% 0.027%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.17% 0.019% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £485 - £503
25th Percentile £500 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £594 £519 £527
90th Percentile £660 - £609
UK median daily rate £538 £513 £513
% change year-on-year +4.88% - +2.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Semantic Layer falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,406 5,200 6,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.10% 18.15% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,766 3,457 4,384
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £618 £663 £660
90th Percentile £721 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 74 128
10th Percentile £20.72 £18.74 £17.99
25th Percentile £29.41 £23.10 £25.35
Median hourly rate £54.35 £38.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +43.03% -18.87% -14.84%
75th Percentile £69.81 £64.67 £64.65
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.40 £47.50
% change year-on-year +64.47% -36.00% -8.21%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Layer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend in England

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer in England over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -1 4 £500 -2.44% 17
East of England - 3 £588 -
South East - 2 £750 - 7
Semantic Layer
UK

Semantic Layer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) dbt
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Lucidchart
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Metadata
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) SAP BW
3 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 1 (11.11%) Looker
3 1 (11.11%) OLAP
3 1 (11.11%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (11.11%) SAP HANA
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Ontologist
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) JSON-LD
1 1 (11.11%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Data Fabric
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Linked Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
2 6 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (55.56%) Analytics
4 4 (44.44%) Data Architecture
4 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
5 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 3 (33.33%) ETL
5 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 3 (33.33%) Use Case
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
7 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
7 1 (11.11%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) EU AI Act
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) Ariba
3 1 (11.11%) Concur
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft